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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 3cb7839a60b..4598bf03e98 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -205,6 +205,20 @@ enum module_state
MODULE_STATE_GOING,
};
+/**
+ * struct module_ref - per cpu module reference counts
+ * @incs: number of module get on this cpu
+ * @decs: number of module put on this cpu
+ *
+ * We force an alignment on 8 or 16 bytes, so that alloc_percpu()
+ * put @incs/@decs in same cache line, with no extra memory cost,
+ * since alloc_percpu() is fine grained.
+ */
+struct module_ref {
+ unsigned long incs;
+ unsigned long decs;
+} __attribute((aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long))));
+
struct module
{
enum module_state state;
@@ -347,10 +361,7 @@ struct module
/* Destruction function. */
void (*exit)(void);
- struct module_ref {
- unsigned int incs;
- unsigned int decs;
- } __percpu *refptr;
+ struct module_ref __percpu *refptr;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
@@ -434,7 +445,7 @@ extern void __module_put_and_exit(struct module *mod, long code)
#define module_put_and_exit(code) __module_put_and_exit(THIS_MODULE, code);
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
-unsigned int module_refcount(struct module *mod);
+unsigned long module_refcount(struct module *mod);
void __symbol_put(const char *symbol);
#define symbol_put(x) __symbol_put(MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #x)
void symbol_put_addr(void *addr);